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Royal Opera House
Filed under NewsJan 28In 1998 she sang Senta in the Flying Dutchman and in 2000 as Sieglinde in Die Walkure singing there in the major opera houses of the world: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona (debut in 1986 as Freia, Das Rheingold), Opera de Paris (debut the same year as Pamina), San Francisco Opera (debut in 1986 as Eva), Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (debut in 1987 as Elisabeth), La Scala (operatic debut in 1987 as Donna Anna), Staatsoper of Vienna (debut in 1989 as Chrysothemis). That same year she sang at the Salzburg Festival the same role. At the Metropolitan Opera he debuted in 1988 as Micaela de Carmen, he returned in 1990 as Donna Anna Don Giovanni with Thomas Hampson and Elettra in Idomeneo with Anthony Rolfe-Johnson. In addition to La Traviata in 1991 it returned for its last performances as the Mariscala Knight rose Richard Strauss after nine years in the 2000 season. Due to the effort required before many compromises and stylistic versatility of such magnitude, his voice started to give signs of early vocal fatigue. His international career went into steep decline after the year 2000 in 1999 the Bavarian State Opera rescinded her contract to sing Der Freischutz arguing that his voice was not what had been and the soprano sued the House of opera between 2001 – 2005 assumed the role of Sieglinde in Tokyo and Beijing, also singing Arabella at Zurich. Adds us Cappelli also, which is the true surprise of the lyric in recent times.
In recent years virtually retired from the international scene, he appears in concerts and master classes sporadically. He served as Professor at Wurzburg where he has debuted as a stage manager in a production of Ariadne auf Naxos. Ultimately as worldlingo.com indicates, he is a singer with the unusual flexibility, Cheryl Studer has made more than eighty roles ranging from the dramatic repertoire to roles more commonly associated with lyric sopranos and the coloratura sopranos. Due to his ability to sing many different kind of roles, some critics have compared the voice of Studer to the Lilli Lehmann admire more for their interpretations of the works of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner. Original author and source of the article.
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